Fall 2015 Issue 23

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Unidentified 20-year-old BU student assaulted and robbed at Ice House bar Gabriella Weick Assistant News Editor

available for students include Smart Track’s Financial Literacy Tools, which comprises a series of different online tutorials and modules that walk both prospective and current students through a number of financial planning ideas such as “Taxes and You” and “Understanding Insurance.” Another tool offered is the Net Price calculator, which offers a tailored figure to how much a given student can expect to receive in aid and spend throughout college on various things.

Thomas Mastro, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly and a BU senior

A Binghamton University student is in critical condition and unconscious after an assault and robbery that occurred on November 15.

The unidentified 20-year-old man was at the Ice House Bar on 15 Charlotte St. in the North Side of Binghamton when he was struck in the head with an unknown object and robbed of his belongings. The student was taken to an area hospital and his attacker is still at large.

Along with the Binghamton Police Department, the family has posted a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or group responsible for the crime.

Chief of Police Joseph Zikuski said that the police department is working with the community to bring the offender to justice, and the department has agreed to match the family’s posted reward.

“No community tolerates this type of behavior,” he said in a statement.

“It is the mission of the Binghamton Police Department to protect and serve members of our community. In order to accomplish our mission we routinely seek assistance from the public.”

According to Ryan Yarosh, the director of media and public relations at BU, the University is doing all it can to aid in the investigation.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with this member of our Binghamton University family,” Yarosh said in an email. “We are currently working with the Binghamton Police Department to make sure this is resolved as quickly as possible. The safety of our students,

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The average U.S. college default rate was 7.6%

The average U.S. community college default rate was 19%

SUNY university centers (Binghamton, Albany, Buffalo, Stony Brook) had a default rate of 3.4%

SUNY colleges had a default rate of 5%

SUNY community colleges had a default rate of 15%

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SUNY default rates below nat'l average

Smart Track's financial transparency tools, expense calculators keep student debt under control Carla Sinclair Assistant News Editor

The cost of attending college in the U.S. has been increasing exponentially for some time; last year, student loan debt surpassed $1 trillion. Now, one of SUNY’s programs has made it one of the best university systems for debt management.

SUNY Fast Track, launched in April 2014, is a system-wide program that helps students within its 64 campuses keep their finances and debt under control. This includes a Financial Aid Award letter that comprehensively outlines aid offerings and cost of

attendance, as well as an array of tools that help students and their families plan out costs and better prepare for future expenditures.

“SUNY Smart Track is the nation’s most comprehensive push to ensure financial literacy and provide support for students,” SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said in a press release last week. “Together with the affordability of a SUNY education and tuition predictability provided by NYSUNY 2020, we have found precisely the right combination of cost transparency and financial planning to support student completion and success.”

This, combined with approximately

75 percent of full-time students receiving financial aid, has led to SUNY students having a significantly lower default rate on their student loans.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the average percentage of students defaulting on their loans for fiscal year 2012 was 11.8 percent. In the same year, the average default rate for SUNY’s university centers — which includes Binghamton University as well the Universities at Albany, Stony Brook and Buffalo — were 3.4 percent, after steadily dropping from 5.59 percent in 2010, when the national default rate for a four-year college was 9.3 percent.

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BU Council reports Fall 2015 progress Administrators discuss faculty additions, racial issues on campus in past months Stacey Schimmel Pipe Dream News

The Binghamton University Council Meeting at the Couper Administration building last Friday morning consisted of speeches about academic innovations, accomplishments in communications and new programs devoted to maintaining undergraduate and graduate excellence. According to Donald Nieman,

provost and the executive vice president for academic affairs, it has been a busy and productive semester for BU. Diversity issues were discussed by both President Harvey Stenger and BU Council student representative Sarah Glose, a second-year graduate student studying public administration. Stenger said that the two student marches on

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Kevin Paredes/Contributing Photographer Pictured: Campus earlier in the fall. Although most students headed home for the holiday, some remained on-campus in break housing, or housing that is designated to stay open during holidays.

Center hosts cross- Break housing is home for the holiday disciplinary research Designated dorms stay open to accomodate athletes, international students

Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems studies interdisciplinary phenomena Amy Donovan Contributing Writer

Though separated onto different floors in the Library Tower, many academic fields relate more than meets the eye. And researchers at Binghamton University’s Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) are looking to expose these interdisciplinary connections.

The group consists of 34 BU faculty

and graduate students who conduct collaborative research projects on complex systems, which CoCo director Hiroki Sayama describes as research looking for connections between phenomena and disciplines that are not obvious at first glance.

This research is aimed at better understanding the world and providing cross-disciplinary insight

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Binghamton University officially began its Thanksgiving break last Wednesday, and while most students headed home for the holiday, some remained in the area.

Those who choose to stay on campus live in break housing, or housing that is designated to stay open during holidays.

This usually includes athletes, international students and students who live far away from school. The buildings that remain open are Delaware, Mohawk and Windham Halls, as well as the apartment communities of Hillside and Susquehanna. The cost of

staying in a dorm with break housing is about $300-400 per semester more than staying in a regular dorm.

Stephanie Tsalwa, a junior majoring in biomedical engineering and a resident assistant (RA) in Delaware, said RAs in break housing take turns staying at school for breaks, and work out among themselves which breaks they stay for. She said it is sometimes difficult to live on campus when the University is closed because with most of the students gone, almost everything shuts down.

“Many dining halls are closed which means you have to cook and everyone is trying to use the kitchen so often you

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resort to ordering food,” Tsalwa said. “Then on official breaks the buses don’t run and almost everything is closed so you’re basically stranded in your building unless you have a car.”

The administration must make sure that students staying in break housing have access to food while the University is closed.

According to John Enright, the director of resident dining, Sodexo decides which dining halls will remain open based on information from residential life.

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LOANS FROM PAGE 1 majoring in human development, said the transparency that Smart Track allows is an example of the university system’s efforts to aid students.

“Ensuring that families have the ability to adequately plan for costs is crucial,” he wrote in an email. “This program provides financial literacy tools to all New Yorkers and allows students to see clearly the full picture of financial aid as it would apply at any SUNY institution, which streamlines an otherwise confusing process.”

During a recent visit to the Mohawk Valley, home to a handful of SUNY campuses, Zimpher went on to say that initiatives such as this and SUNY2020 work to advance the quality of education both during

and after graduation.

“With continued state investment for our campuses in the Mohawk Valley region and throughout SUNY, we will keep doing all we can to ensure that student borrowers are able to finish their degree and graduate without unmanageable loan debt,” she said.

The services offered and students’ use of management tools make SUNY stand out as an institution, said Kai Brown, a sophomore double-majoring in economics and Japanese.

“I think it’s great that BU has such a low default rate in the nation,” he said. “It goes to show how capable SUNY students are. Personally, I think this will help the reputation of SUNY schools and now more people will consider it for their college education.”

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and applications in fields with interacting components such as physiological systems, food webs and stock markets. These problems can be difficult to understand because the causes and effects are not always noticeably connected, Sayama said.

“Complex systems science provides a highly interdisciplinary framework and methodologies to study various subjects using the ‘systems’ thinking and quantitative tools (e.g., mathematical/ computational models),” Sayama explained in an email. “The CoCo Center has been offering a venue for such interdisciplinary collaborations, intellectual stimulation and professional development for anyone who is interested in complex systems.”

CoCo was established in 2007 as a research group, but was chosen last July by BU’s Division of Research as the newest Organized Research Center (ORC), which are units established to foster interdisciplinary research. A new ORC is established annually, based on a proposal process.

Other ORCs at BU include the Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience and the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender. Sayama said being established provides more opportunities for funding, supplies and administrative assistance, as well as increasing their visibility as researchers.

CoCo covers various interdisciplinary subjects which faculty and students collaborate on to research. One such study is being conducted by anthropology professor Carl Lipo, who is analyzing the cultural changes of human populations through

archaeology and anthropology.

Lipo said that the group allows for collaboration of research on complex phenomena that draw from multiple components.

“Complex phenomena are all around us: weather, stock markets, communities, disease outbreaks, Twitter memes and so on,” Lipo wrote in an email. “It is inherently a transdisciplinary topic that involves individuals working in computer science, economics, anthropology, archaeology, geology, engineering, geography, public administration and so on.”

Besides conducting collaborative research projects, CoCo also hosts seminars in which faculty from BU and other schools discuss their research findings.

One seminar took place this fall by guest speaker Yaneer Bar-Yam, the Director of the New England Complex Systems Institute, which Lipo said exemplified the kind of research CoCo is doing.

“His talk ranged from examples of complexity in resource trading to stock market panic to the spread of Ebola,” Lipo wrote.”He demonstrated how these tools have tremendous power for explaining the changing world around us.”

One of the student researchers is Hyobin Kim, a Ph.D candidate studying systems science and industrial engineering.

Kim is currently working on implementing a gene regulatory network-based morphogenetic systems.

“The field of Complex Systems has become an irresistible stream in the 21st century,” Kim said.

“According to such trend, I think that we need to study complex systems. The CoCo can provide students with an opportunity to certainly build up the background on Complex Systems.”

campus showed that students are standing with those who were discriminated against, and Glose said that it was a good thing that these issues are discussed.

“Whether you like it or not, issues of race and religion happen on all college campuses and we are not immune to that,” Glose said.

“I think it’s great that we go to a University where students feel like they can have these conversations and they can go to people and feel heard.”

Stenger announced that on December 10, as part of the Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI), BU will find out whether it is one of the regions to win $500 million of economic revitalization funds. If received, there will be investments

by BU aimed to help revitalize the economy of the surrounding area, such as moving the Decker School of Nursing from main campus to Johnson City, which will allow the nursing school to collocate with the pharmacy school.

“That whole area over there is ripe for redevelopment and I think it’s going to be a great initiative

for us for the next five to 10 years to see how many things we can do in Johnson City related to health, and to use some of these funds to turn around the district,” Stenger said.

Nieman presented on academic innovations which included hiring faculty, expanding the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and restructuring calculus courses.

Thirty-five new tenure and tenure-tracked faculty have been hired since 2011 through a new hiring approach, in which faculty are hired into five transdisciplinary areas of excellence instead of just one. In the past two years, approximately 60 percent of new faculty have been hired to areas that tackle world challenges like human rights, health sciences and sustainable communities.

According to Nieman, the administration wants to plateau undergraduate enrollment because they feel they have reached the number they can comfortably accommodate.

Their focus is on new graduate enrollment programs, and there

has been an 18 percent increase in graduate enrollment since 2011.

All of the schools are working to increase applications and new programs, such as pharmacy, sustainable communities, public archaeology, health systems and data analytics, in order to increase enrollment.

“We know we’re not going to be able to sustain the levels of graduate growth that we want without expanding the portfolio of programs that we have,” Nieman said.

The calculus program has been rebuilt to lower rates of students withdrawing from courses or receiving Ds or Fs in them (DWF) and setting them behind. Recruiting Bill Kazmierczak from the math department as a new director of calculus has helped make this restructuring possible. Calculus I is now two, two-hour courses, so if students begin and have difficulties, they can back out, retake it in the second half of the semester or catch up during winter session.

As a result, DWF rates have fallen in Calculus II from 36

Veteran Services expands programs for students Brendan Zarkower Pipe Dream News

Binghamton University was originally founded as Triple Cities College in 1946 as a response to the GI Bill, which afforded the veterans of World War II an opportunity to attend college for free. Sixty-nine years later, there are still a number of resources on campuses for veterans to further their higher education.

According to Zachary DuBord, the assistant director of Transfer and Veteran Services, for years the University didn’t offer much assistance for students who had served or were currently serving in the Armed Forces, and was limited to walking students through paperwork-heavy GI benefits, which are federal laws that offer veterans higher education funding, among others things.

“For a long time, we were mainly focused on helping veteran students get their GI benefits, since it can be such a complicated process,” DuBord said. “But now, we have started to offer a lot of new services in order to bring the veterans together.”

In the past, BU’s veteran services were conducted by a single individual in the TRiO office, another federally mandated program that provides educational opportunity for disadvantaged students.

However, starting last year, the office has been integrated with the Office of Transfer Student Affairs due to the overlap in student needs; both transfer students and veterans are new to campus and are looking to receive credit for past experiences.

“We are better suited to meet students’ needs this way,” DuBord said.

Services offered other than those federally mandated include the formation of the Student Association-chartered Veteran Student’s Organization and events such as bringing a two-star general to students this past Veteran’s Day. A lecture series addressing issues facing veterans is also in the works.

Veterans and reservists face unique issues on campus, ranging from academic support to a lack of knowledge among their student peers regarding issues that pertain to them.

“There’s a misconception that all veterans are deployed in wars,” said Zachary Salisbury, BU’s student veteran advocate.

“But in reality, that’s just a small percentage of those who served, especially with the wars winding down.”

Manthan Patel is a Private First Class (Pfc.) in the U.S. Army Reserves and a junior majoring in economics. He said he has never had a bad experience with veterans’ services on campus and thinks they provide a good

level of support for students, as well as guidance with funding for living expenses and tuition.

“We have really great VA services on campus, they’ve always been helpful,” Patel said.

“The biggest problem is that most people don’t know how to use their benefits, but they can help with that.”

Pfc. Gabriel Fernandez, a senior majoring in history, said he finds BU’s veterans services useful. However, he said he had issues getting information from Harpur Advising about receiving academic credit for military service, which is available in some circumstances.

“Other than that, it is mostly just not being able to register for some classes like Backpacking,” Fernandez said. “I will have to miss some weekends for training so I know I can’t take that.”

Despite the support services offered, some students feel somewhat alienated from the general body of campus.

“Because we are such a liberal campus here, there can sometimes be some issues with students identifying as a veteran,” DuBord said. “There are political issues involved and so some students may not want to deal with that.”

Earlier this month, SUNY and the State of New York made an amendment to the rules governing in-state tuition that would allow all veterans and active-duty military personnel

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percent to 14 percent in the last year and from 19 percent to 10 percent in Calculus I. Nieman said that this is important in maintaining BU’s status as a top-tier university.

“The core of Binghamton’s reputation is as an outstanding undergraduate institution and we want to maintain the quality of our undergrad education,” Nieman said. “The thing I’m most proud of that we’ve done is to completely take our calculus program down to the studs and rebuild it.”

EOP, which provides access for students of economically disadvantaged backgrounds who have real ability, has expanded from 588 to 628 students, and greater STEM focus has been incorporated to their five-week summer program.

Greg Delviscio, the associate vice president for communications and marketing, said that his task forces have included three new features in the bMobi app to inform students of open Pods computers, open washers and dryers in residence halls and the Off Campus College Transit (OCCT) bus schedule.

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Military personnel, veterans and their families living on our campuses and in the state's communities deserve the same access to affordable public higher education that all New Yorkers enjoy —Nancy Zimpher SUNY Chancellor

to pay only in-state tuition to attend all SUNY universities and colleges, regardless of their actual place of residence.

“Military personnel, veterans and their families living on our campuses and in the state’s communities deserve the same access to affordable public higher education that all New Yorkers enjoy,” SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said in a statement.

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Dorms stay open for holiday HOUSING FROM PAGE 1 communities hosted a combined Thanksgiving dinner for break residents in the Mohawk Hall Great Room. After the holiday, Sodexo reopened the Hinman Café for limited hours for the remainder of the break. According to Enright,

Hinman café was chosen over the other three dining halls because of its central campus location and proximity to apartment communities.

According to Tsalwa, staying at the University during the break is relaxing and a time to bond with the other residents who stay on-

campus.

“Campus becomes empty and peaceful, and has this calmness about it,” Tsalwa said. “We sometimes have dinners and teach people who don’t know about the holiday about it. In a way, you build community and become a cute family during the break.”

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and anyone with information is encouraged to contact the both on and off campus, is a top Binghamton Police Detective priority.”

Bureau.

The investigation is ongoing, “It is very important to us that

we provide closure and justice for the victim and family,” Zikuski said in a statement. “Any assistance from the community will be greatly appreciated.”

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Construction Updates Crane work on East Drive to cause lane restrictions Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 East Drive near Bingham Hall in Newing College will be reduced to one-way traffic from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 1 due to a crane on site at Bingham. The crane will lift panels into place for a chimney that has been constructed. Flag persons will control traffic during this time.

The roadway will be open to two-way traffic in the evening.

Work on Center of Excellence to cause noise disturbance Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 Contractors will be building an enclosure around the Center of Excellence on Monday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 1. The construction will connect the building with the Smart Energy Research and Development Facility building at the Innovative Technologies Center (ITC). There will be some noise during the construction which may affect student offices.

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“If we truly care about this — if we’re going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience — then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them, period. Enough is enough.”

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Endicott and Johnson City get “yarn-bombed” for homelessness relief

7-month-old baby shot, killed in Rome, NY

A seven-month-old baby was shot and killed Johnson City and Endicott were “yarn-bombed” Saturday in Rome, NY, according to WBNG for a good cause on Wednesday evening, according Binghamton. Henry W. Bartle, 18, was charged to the Press and Sun-Bulletin. Over 100 hand-knit with criminally negligent homicide at his home hats, gloves and scarves were draped over bushes in Rome where he lived with his girlfriend, the and signs around the Endicott Municipal Building, mother of his child. Bartle was allegedly cleaning George F. Johnson Municipal Library, the Endicott his shotgun in the living room of the home Police Station and Endicott’s veteran’s park. Each Saturday and had the gun in his lap pointed in the item contains the note, “I am not lost out in the direction of the child. Bartle loaded the weapon cold … Take this to keep warm!” Each item was and installed an accessory grip, and when he stood made by an individual from a local knitting club, up, the gun fired and hit the child in the upper senior citizen center or a knitting enthusiast, and body. The child has not been identified by police, the event was organized by Eilen Konechny, of and Bartle is being held at the Oneida County Correctional Facility.

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Click your way to cyber savings

Research is key for finding great deals on everything from clothing to electronics Kathryn Shafsky Arts & Culture Editor

Thanksgiving is a time for food, family and — for the budgetconscious student — it’s a time for some major savings. But if you were too full to fight through the crowds on Black Friday, there’s still time to get some of the season’s best savings from the comfort of your bed. With just a little research and a good WiFi connection, you can save big on everything on your wish list on Cyber Monday.

If you’re looking to save on quality pieces, the best clothing deals you’ll find online won’t be from retailers like Forever 21 and H&M, whose prices are already low year-round. While both retailers have heavily discounted their prices for the occasion, this is the time to focus on the big players.

Try exploring online-only clothing retailers like ASOS and Net-a-Porter. While you’ll spend a little more than $1.99 for a tank, these sites, among others, are offering deep discounts on quality

designer clothing. You may not want to splurge on a $1,000 Dolce & Gabanna jacket, but for women, Net-a-Porter has many designer finds for an extra 50 percent off for the holidays. If you are looking for a wider variety of items, ASOS offers men’s and plus-size clothing, as well as discounts on already reasonably priced options from designers, as well as their in-house brand.

Another way to get great deals is by going directly to the source.

If you’re dying for a new pair of

Adidas Sambas, check out their holiday sale before looking at other sources. While Target may be offering 15 percent off site-wide for knock-offs, designer brands like Adidas and Kate Spade are giving deep discounts that make the prices comparable. Still, some items will be more expensive, but investing in quality pieces that will last will save you more in the long run.

For those more electronically minded, Cyber Monday is one of the best times to save on televisions, computers and other tech gadgets

Shed that extra slice Raise your heart rate with Pipe Dream's ab workout Kara Brown Staff Writer Thanksgiving break can be a bit of a tease. You get to go home, relax, stuff yourself with food and then live in a coma-like state for the next few days. While allowing your mind and body to recuperate before you dive into the last couple weeks of the semester is essential, you can’t let yourself get sluggish.

To kick-start this week and get your heart rate pumping, Pipe Dream has come up with an abdominal circuit and a back workout that you’re sure to feel after this long weekend.

Circuit: Perform the following three exercises back-to-back for 30 seconds each to complete round one. After the first round, rest for 20 seconds and do two to three more rounds, resting between each.

1) Leg Lifts Muscle targeted: Rectus abdominus (abs) Lie on your back with your hands at your sides and your palms facing down. Lift both legs up so they are in line with your hips and perpendicular to the ground. Lift your head, neck and shoulders off the mat and leave them up for the duration of the exercise to keep pressure off of your lower back.

This is your starting position.

Keeping your legs straight without locking your knees, bring one leg down and up and then switch legs, all at your own pace. If you feel a pull in your lower back when you bring a leg down, you’re going too low. Listen to your body. To

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decrease the intensity of this exercise, modify it by bringing your knees to your chest and tapping your toes on the ground as you alternate. To increase the intensity of this exercise, slow down your pace and lift and lower both legs at the same time.

2) Toe Touches Muscle targeted: Rectus abdominus (abs) As soon as the 30 seconds for leg lifts are up, leave your legs up in the starting position and bring your arms up parallel to your legs.

Crunch up and down by lifting the head, neck and shoulders off the ground, then back down at your own pace. Reach your fingertips in the direction of your toes as you go up, without actually touching your toes. Leave a little space between your chin and your chest. To decrease the intensity of this exercise, drop your legs, keep your feet flat on the ground and continue to crunch up.

3) Penguins Muscle targeted: Obliques (sides) After the 30 seconds of toe touches, bend your legs so that your feet are flat on the ground and extended a few inches further from the body than normal. Bring your arms out to the side and keep your head, neck and shoulders lifted. Squeeze in your tummy, bellybutton to spine, and tap on the outside of your heels, alternating side to side while staying low.

Back Exercises: After you work the front of your body, you’ll need to strengthen the back to help maintain good posture. The muscle that works in

opposition to the rectus abdominus is the erector spinae, which runs along the vertebrae column on your back. To get a little work out of this muscle before you stretch, do 30-45 seconds of a superman variation. Take no more than 40 seconds to rest and grab water before this exercise.

Superman Variations Start by laying on your stomach with your arms out in front and your legs straight behind you on the ground. You can either lift both of the legs and arms up at the same time and hold, or alternate lifting one leg and the opposite arm, or lift only your arms or only your legs — any of these are perfect to engage the backside. Pick a variation that suits you and do it for 30-45 seconds.

Post work-out stretch: Roll onto your back, bringing your arms up, over and behind your head and rest them on the ground. Your finger tips should be pointing back so that your body is in a straight, flat line. Keeping your legs and arms down, reach through your toes and fingertips, feeling the stretch in your core. Next, come up on to one bent knee, with the other leg bent at a 90-degree angle in front of you and lunge forward to open up the hip flexor after all of those leg lifts. Be sure to not let the knee of your front leg pass over that ankle. To get a deeper stretch, slide your back knee further back and/or bring your hands or forearms down to the ground. Do this on both sides and then finish off by sitting up tall and cross-legged, stretching the oblique by reaching up and over to each side, alternately.

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Franz Lino/Photography Editor Simone Scheurer, an undeclared sophomore, performs toe touches and penguin exercises at the Gaslamp Gym in Downtown Binghamton. The exercises target the central abdominal muscles and obliques, respectively.

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“In Too Deep” — Sum 41 2001 brought us another great workout hit, this time in the form of Sum 41’s “In Too Deep.” This song is angsty and angry and everything that you need blasting in your ears while you attempt to lift. Especially if you’ve had a bad day, this song is cathartic in all the right ways. Channel that anger into something productive as you work off the pounds of stuffing you ate last Thursday.

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OPINIONS Monday, November 30, 2015

Letter to the Editor

Professors speak out against hate Muslims should not be attacked by presidential candidates To the Editor, We read with dismay recent suggestions by some candidates for President of the United States that Muslims should be forced to register, and comparing Muslim immigrants to rabid dogs.

Hatred of Muslims, based in ignorance of Islam, and offered as a way to boost one’s own fortunes, is offensive and shameful.

In times of crisis, the laws that protect us often fail. The painful and unjust forcible internment of Japanese-Americans is but one example. Today, being a Muslim in the United States means being faced with hate speech, intimidation, humiliation and violence. The rhetoric of political campaigns is not a safe space for incitement and hatred.

As faculty members, we strive to offer safe, engaging and challenging classroom environments for our students. And we strive to teach in a non-partisan and non-ideological manner.

We are not now changing course.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963) wrote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”

There is no place for hatred and prejudice in our national dialogue.

SPREAD THE WORD On November 15, a 20-year-old Binghamton University student was attacked and robbed at the Ice House, a bar located on the city’s west side.

At press time, it has been over two weeks and the University administration has released no information on the incident.

The victim is still in critical condition at a local hospital and the only information available is a post on the BPD’s Facebook page from November 26. BU students — especially those who live Downtown — needed to know this information sooner.

That a BU student was viciously assaulted at a Binghamton bar and that the BU — as well as Binghamton — population was not made aware until nearly two weeks later is unacceptable. If the administration was unaware

of the attack until now, that is disconcerting. If it was aware but did not inform students, we are left with questions.

It is possible that the Binghamton police were initially unaware that the victim was a student, but regardless, the incident was only made public in the past few days. An assault in a bar in a college town is not something to be kept quiet.

Earlier this semester, we wrote a similar editorial following a shooting at the Kennedy Fried Chicken on Main Street. Two months later, it seems that not much has

changed.

If this incident had happened in Downtown Binghamton — like the brutal attack on Bryan Steinhauer outside The Rathskeller in 2008 — the University would have been tripping over itself to issue a statement. We acknowledge that it is certainly not the University’s job to nanny students who have made the decision to move or spend time off-campus, but it certainly has a responsibility to share information that could impact the safety of its students.

We understand issues of confidentiality, but the identity of a victim does not need to be

released for students to know to keep their guard up.

Details of this assault are still few and far between, and Pipe Dream will continue to investigate it. Yet, once thing is clear: Binghamton University students cannot be left in the dark — intentionally or unintentionally. It would go a long way toward building a culture of trust if the University and police department worked together to spread awareness to students. We all call Binghamton our home, and we all rely on the proper authorities to tell us what’s happening in our own backyard.

Randy Friedman, Chair, Department of Judaic Studies Jonathan Karp, Departments of Judaic Studies and History Roy McGrann, Department of Mechanical Engineering Lisa Tessman, Department of Philosophy Bat-Ami Bar On, Department of Philosophy Gina Glasman, Department of Judaic Studies Jonathan Krasno, Department of Political Science Doug Jones, Religious Studies Minor Dina Danon, Department of Judaic Studies Tony Reeves, Department of Philosophy Wendy Neuberger, Director of Harpur Edge Lisa Altman, Industrial Outreach, Watson School Barbara Goldman-Wartell, Department of Judaic Studies

Views expressed in the opinion pages represent the opinions of the columnists. The only piece which represents the views of the Pipe Dream Editorial Board is the Staff Editorial, above.

The Editorial Board is composed of the Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Opinions Editor, Arts & Culture Editor and Sports Editor.

Six degress of seperation

We are all closer to terror than we think Elyssa Diamond

Guest Columnist

Have you ever heard of Six Degrees of Separation?

Supposedly it would only take, at most, six steps to connect any two people in the world, from New York to London, London to Shanghai, Shanghai to Cancun. In our high-tech society, the world is very small, and strangers, perhaps, are not so strange.

The Jewish community has turned this theory into a game – Jewish Geography. That person you met at the Rat on Saturday night is probably your camp friend’s cousin. He did BBYO with your best friend from high school. He went to middle school with your first kiss.

Thanks to Jewish Geography, all of a sudden you feel like you know the entire town of Great Neck. And it is so much fun.

Sometimes, however, the small Jewish world can be a scary one to be a part of. On November 19, a friend asked if I had heard about the American who was killed in Israel. He was a recent high school grad on a gap-year program studying at a Yeshiva. He was delivering food to Israeli soldiers in the West Bank when a terrorist fired shots and rammed his car into a crowded intersection, killing three people. My friend told me he was the roommate of one of her good friends from high

school. Jewish Geography is a game, and a really easy one at that.

A few hours later I finally made my way onto Facebook.

I saw his name everywhere.

Ezra Schwartz. Ezra Schwartz.

Ezra Schwartz. I quickly found out that this 18-yearold Massachusetts native was more than just a name in an article and a face on a viral photograph, but he and I had only two degrees of separation between us. In high school, Ezra participated on a teen tour lead by an organization of which I was an active member. Even though we had never met each other, and now we never will, he and I were part of the same community.

After I read about what had happen to Ezra, I looked up his Facebook profile. Facebookstalking the dead is a surreal experience. We have ten mutual friends, nine of whom are college freshmen or younger.

Two of them attend Binghamton University. Another is an alumnus.

Terrorism has become so common that many people, including myself, have become numb to it. Every day there is another stabbing in Israel, a bombing in Iraq, a massacre in Paris. In November alone there have been over 40 separate incidents that could be classified as terror attacks, but I have not seen commemorative Facebook posts about most of them. The world may be small,

but it is big enough to shield us from tragedy, until that tragedy forces its way directly into our lives.

I began to care about international terror when I was only two degrees from it.

It should not have taken me so long. The theory says that there are only six degrees at most separating any two given people. That means after any given attack you are only, at most, six degrees from someone in mourning. Only six degrees from a victim. Somewhere along those connections, it is affecting you. Tragedy in a distant land is never really so distant. We should stop treating it like it is.

— Elyssa Diamond is a sophomore double-majoring in English and human development

The world may be small, but it is big enough to shield us from tragedy

Letter to the Editor

Equal pay for equal work

BU must respect its GAs to call itself "premier"

In the rush to turn Binghamton University into a “premier public” institution, teaching assistants and graduate assistants are getting a raw deal.

That might not bother you too much if one recently gave you a bad grade, but it should.

Binghamton University depends on its teaching assistants (TAs) and graduate assistants (GAs), but its new pay proposal, described below, doesn’t seem to show that.

TAs and GAs are graduate students — people who are striving to become world-class experts in a field of research they are passionate about.

Nearly all of them are focused on making the world a better place — understanding Lyme disease (anthropology), studying sustainable energy (materials science) and more.

Many graduate students are invited to study at BU with the promise of a job as a TA or a GA. This work is intended to provide living expenses in exchange for doing the bulk of the day-today work of your undergraduate classes, such as teaching class sections and grading assignments and exams. Off the clock, grad students also publicly assist in promoting BU at conferences and help recruit undergraduate and other graduate students, in addition to spending hours on their own coursework and research that increases the profile of the university.

All of these TAs and GAs have bachelor’s degrees; many of them have master’s degrees.

Yet they are paid relatively little — less than $14,500 per year on average. Mandatory fees deduct an additional $1,850 each year — about 13% of that stipend. Grad students in some BU departments make so little that they qualify for, and must use, federal benefits like SNAP (food stamps). The university expects graduate students to be okay with this, because we are passionate about our education. Simply put, our desire to learn grants BU dirtcheap academic labor.

This is bad enough, but BU is about to make it worse. The new graduate student recruitment plan proposed by the administration promises to raise TA/GA pay—but only for NEW graduate students.

This means that experienced TAs and GAs will be doing the same work as the new ones for $2,000$7,000 less per year. This unfair two-tiered pay scale has no logical justification and will alienate the existing grad student workforce— an experienced workforce that is instrumental in creating an educational environment that makes Binghamton University a “premier public” institution.

In a statement to WBNG last week, University spokesperson Ryan Yarosh reiterated the administration’s commitment to creating a two-tier stipend system in order to aid recruitment.

Increasing stipends could be a positive improvement that furthers the goals of the university, but only if it is also extended to the graduate students who are already working diligently and conscientiously to keep BU a great place to go to college. A two-tiered stipend will lead to disillusioned graduate students, which is neither good for recruitment nor the quality of education offered at BU. It will certainly not foster an atmosphere of collaborative research and productive collegiality amongst the graduate students.

Unequal pay for equal work is unacceptable at BU. It is a shameful state of affairs. A “premier public” university cannot be built on the backs of an exploited and discarded workforce reduced to buying ramen with a credit card while the new teaching assistant across the hall pays cash at Social on State. If you agree, speak out. Email Provost Nieman (dnieman@binghamton.edu) and tell him that you support the graduate students in their quest to receive equal pay for equal work.

Sincerely, Katherine Lacy (Department of Anthropology, GSEU Member) Kellam Throgmorton (Department of Anthropology, GSEU Member)

CROSS COUNTRY

BU concludes season at ECAC Championships See bupipedream.com/sports Monday, November 30, 2015

BU topped by Canisius, Xavier

Sophomore James puts up record numbers in loss Nicholas Waldron Pipe Dream Sports

Franz Lino/ Photography Editor BU sophomore forward Willie Rodriguez is averaging 18.4 points per game on the season.

Rodriguez dominates for Bearcats

Forward delivers huge performances in back-to-back games E.Jay Zarett Sports Editor Willie Rodriguez took his game to another level in the Binghamton men’s basketball team’s last two games.

The sophomore forward showed flashes of brilliance in his first year with the Bearcats (1-4), but Rodriguez played some of his best basketball this past week, topping 20 points in both of Binghamton’s games — an 81-75 victory over Central Connecticut State and a 75-65 loss to Boston University.

Rodriguez entered the week averaging 13 points per game. He finished it averaging 18.4 points per contest, currently topping the America East (AE).

“We are very focused on getting him the ball right now and he’s delivered with it,” Binghamton head coach Tommy Dempsey said.

On Tuesday, Rodriguez dominated the CCSU (0-4) defense.

The Blue Devils found no answer for the sophomore on their home floor, as Rodriguez scored from

all over the court, demonstrating strong post moves and a nice touch from the midrange. The sophomore registered 10 points in the final five minutes of the contest, leading the Bearcats to a six-point victory, their first win of the season.

Overall, Rodriguez poured in a career-high 27 points while shooting nine of 13 from the field and 50 percent from the 3-point line. He also connected on eight of his 10 free throw attempts and grabbed six rebounds in the victory. Junior guard Marlon Beck added 17 points, including four 3-pointers in the contest.

“To be honest it’s pretty simple,” Rodriguez said about his success. “The things I work on with [Binghamton associate head] coach [Ben] Luber in our workouts, I’m executing in the games.”

Rodriguez followed up that performance by recording his first double-double of the season in the Bearcats’ loss to Boston University (3-3) on Saturday.

Despite the Terriers packing

the paint and attempting to shut down the Bearcats’ lanes to the basket, Rodriguez still managed to penetrate the lane and get to the rim. He finished that contest with 26 points and 10 rebounds while shooting 57 percent from the field and 90 percent from the free throw line.

“I feel like I just have to play my game, keep attacking the basket and if they collapse on me I got to kick out,” Rodriguez said. “That’s really it.”

However, Rodriguez’s effort in the contest was not enough as Boston University’s Cheddi Mosely, a sophomore guard, scored 23 first-half points to give the Terriers a 42-30 halftime lead. Despite a rally early in the second half, the Bearcats failed to overcome the deficit, falling by 10. Both Beck and freshman guard Everson Davis also finished in double figures for Binghamton, recording 17 and 11 points, respectively.

“You have to play 40 minutes against a good team and I thought our first half, we just never found a good rhythm,” Dempsey said. “I

thought we came out with really good defensive intensity in the second half which allowed us to get more stops. They weren’t able to set their zone up and then we were able to get out in transition.”

Despite Rodriguez’s early success, the Bearcats are off to a slow start — losing four of five to open the year — for the fourth straight season under Dempsey.

However, he believes something is different about this year’s team than any other he has coached at Binghamton.

“This is a team that has a chance and I really believe that,” Dempsey said. “This is the best team we’ve had over the last few years and it’s not even close. I think that we just have to keep fighting through a tough stretch here in our schedule, keep coming to work every day. The schedule will loosen up a little bit eventually and we’ll be able to win some games.”

Binghamton is set to return to action Tuesday against Colgate.

Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. from the Events Center in Vestal, New York.

BU honors newest Hall of Famers

Former administrator, 1980 men's soccer team among 2015 class

Photo Provided by Jonathan Cohen/University Photographer The BU hall of fame class of 2015, pictured from left: volleyball middle hitter Jacki Kane ‘08, baseball pitcher Zach Groh ‘08, former coach and administrator Jim Norris and 1980 men’s soccer coach Tim Schum.

Noah Bressner Pipe Dream Sports Led by then-head coach Tim Schum, the 1980 Binghamton men’s soccer team knew early on in the season that it had something special. This belief remained among the 15 team members in attendance at the 2015 Binghamton University Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Events Center, where the 1980 soccer team was inducted alongside Zach Groh, Jacki Kane and Jim Norris following the women’s basketball game just prior to Thanksgiving break.

As the Binghamton Colonials, the 1980 men’s soccer squad had to overcome back-to-back losses early in the season at the hands of Ithaca and Cornell. Despite outshooting a Division I Cornell team that would go on to end the year ranked 20th in the nation, BU fell, 3-0.

“Any great team has to overcome adversity,” Jordan Sherm ’82 said. “We dominated that game.

We had an early goal inexplicably called back … we outplayed them but lost.”

The loss served as a turning point in the season that saw the Colonials accumulate a 12-4-2 record, win the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Championship and advance to the NCAA Division III Tournament, where they went on to earn two overtime victories before losing in the quarterfinals. This remains the farthest any Binghamton team has advanced in a national tournament.

At the end of the 1980 season, BU was ranked fifth in the nation at the Division III level.

“The team was well balanced,” Schum said. “We always tried to possess the ball, tried not to give it away easily and have a solid defense

behind everything. But I always told the guys once you win the ball, the ultimate goal is to score.”

The squad is the second BU team inducted into the Hall of Fame, joining the 1983-84 wrestling team, which entered the Hall last year.

Groh was the 2006 America East (AE) Pitcher of the year and a 2008 graduate. Groh propelled the Bearcats to back-to-back regular season titles in 2007 and 2008 and leads the Binghamton baseball program in career strikeouts (286).

Groh is also second in wins (22) and ERA (3.36).

“Zach was the kind of young man who was ready for the challenge that we had as a young Division I program,” Binghamton baseball head coach Tim Sinicki said. “He wanted to be part of that challenge and of the characteristics I liked most about him was that he wanted to be great.”

For Kane’s father, her induction into the Binghamton Athletics Hall of Fame is no surprise. During a visit prior to Kane’s freshman year, her father stopped her outside of the Hall of Fame — then housed in the West Gym — and much to Kane’s dismay, proclaimed that she would one day be honored there. Kane ’08, now Jacki Jing — a morning news anchor for ABC’s New Orleans affiliate WGNO — is the Binghamton volleyball program’s all-time blocks leader.

“One thing that stood out about Jacki is that she never gave up on blocking,” BU volleyball head coach Glenn Kiriyama said. “She was one of those players who was determined to close the block and get her hands on every ball.”

Norris, who served as an administrator and coach for 20 years, rounded out the inductees.

He served as head coach of the men’s basketball team during the transition from Division III to Division II and led the Bearcats to 52 wins over four years. Norris served in a variety of roles as an administrator in the athletics department before being named the interim Director of Athletics, where he served from 2009-2011.

“When I stepped in as director, I stepped in with a great staff surrounding me and great student athletes representing us and I believed in them,” Norris said.

“They unselfishly made me look good and this is as much about them today as it is about me.”

Norris currently serves as the varsity boy’s basketball coach at nearby Windsor High School.

The Binghamton women’s basketball team (2-4) dropped two games over the last week, getting blown out, 80-50, by Canisius on Wednesday night before mounting an impressive comeback attempt against Big East member Xavier on Saturday afternoon before falling, 64-55.

Despite failing to record a victory, the Bearcats made history as sophomore forward Alyssa James recorded nine blocks in BU’s contest at Xavier, breaking the America East record for blocks in a game.

On Wednesday, BU traveled to Canisius (2-2) to face the Golden Griffins. After trading the lead throughout the first period, the Golden Griffins proved to be too much for the young Bearcats. Binghamton saw a two-point deficit grow into a 26-point one after BU failed to reach double digit scoring in two consecutive periods. Even with a slight offensive revival in the fourth quarter, the Bearcats were unable to create any momentum.

James finished with 17 points and a game-high seven rebounds, while sophomore guard Imani Watkins added 21 points for her second 20-point effort of the season. Watkins and James represented two of only four Bearcats to record a point in the game.

Binghamton head coach Linda Cimino thinks the Bearcats need more players to score in order to find success.

“When we don’t win a game it’s usually because we only have one or two people in double-digit scoring,” Cimino said. “We need to have more people in double-digit scoring to win basketball games.”

Saturday’s matchup versus Big East conference member Xavier seemed to be going down the same path as the Bearcats’ effort three days prior as Binghamton fell to a 21-4 deficit after the first quarter.

But, the Bearcats refused to let the game turn into a blowout.

“No matter what the score is we are going to play the same way,” Cimino said.

The Bearcats held their own, slowly piecing their offense together in the second

quarter. Going into halftime, Binghamton was headed in the right direction, but a comeback didn’t seem likely as BU was trailing, 34-14.

But Binghamton didn’t roll over in the second half, as the Bearcats pieced together their best half of the season.

In the final two quarters, BU consistently forced turnovers, drew fouls and managed to make the game close, outscoring Xavier, 41-30.

“Our offense wasn’t really there, but defensively we did a really good job,” Cimino said.

“We pressed them and were able to get them to turn the ball over and create some offense that way. We were really pleased with the way we finished the game, especially by winning the second half. These are the baby steps in the process of rebuilding.”

An absolutely dominant performance by James was the story of the game for the Bearcats, as she was only one block away from recording the second triple-double in Binghamton women’s basketball history. Her ninth block set the Binghamton and America East women’s basketball record for blocks in a single game. The record had previously been held by current BU assistant coach Leah Truncale, who recorded eight blocks in a 2001 game against Morehead State.

It was a historic afternoon for Binghamton basketball, but Cimino believes that there is more where that came from for James, who was no stranger to blocks in her freshman year while at Caldwell College.

“We expect her to get about three blocks a game,” Cimino said. “She defended without fouling, which is important.”

While the Bearcats were unable to record a win against Canisius or Xavier, there were some positives to take from the two competitions. While James continues to be an integral part of Binghamton’s offense and defense, BU still has plenty of work to do before conference play starts in early January.

BU is scheduled to return to action on Thursday against Brown. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at the Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Emily Earl/Assistant Photography Editor Sophomore forward Alyssa James recorded a conference-record nine blocks in BU’s 64-55 loss at Xavier on Saturday.